For-Profit Colleges and Universities: Their Markets, Regulation, Performance, and Place in Higher Education

This Book Offers a Clear-Eyed and Balanced Analysis of for-Profit Colleges and Universities (FPCUs), Reviewing Their History, Business Strategies, and Management Practices; Setting Them in the Context of Marketplace Conditions, The Framework of Public Policy and Government Regulations; And Viewing Them in the Light of the Public Good.

Guilbert C. Hentschke is the Richard T. Cooper and Mary Catherine Cooper Chair in Public School Administration at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. Vicente M. Lechuga is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration at Texas AM University. William G. Tierney is University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California.